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† ˈcolliquate, v. Obs.
[f. colliquāt- ppl. stem of med. or early mod.L. colliquāre, f. col- together + liquāre to make liquid, melt: see -ate3.]
1. trans. To melt or fuse together. Also fig.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1153 Who being severed apart in body, conjoine and colliquate, as it were perforce, their soules together. 1680Boyle Scept. Chem. ii. 150 When Ashes and Sand are Colliquated into Glass.
2. To make liquid; to reduce to the consistence of a liquid; to melt down.
1680Boyle Produc. Chem. Princ. i. 42 Colliquating moderate quantities of it [Salt-petre].
3. spec. in Old Phys.
a. To reduce (the solids of the body) to a liquid consistence; to cause to waste away (cf. colliquation 3 b).
1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. (1672) 49 The humours and Fat of the Kidneys are apt to be colliquated through a great heat from within. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iv. 124 In poison..there is a heating, colliquating, and putrefactive quality.
b. To reduce (humours) to a thinner consistence.
1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 726 Unless..the Humours [are] colliquated, or the Fever inclining to Malignancy. 1733Stuart ibid. XXXVIII. 21 These Volatile Salts..break down and colliquate the Blood.
4. intr. To become liquid, melt.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 51 Ice..will colliquate in water. |